ATTRACTIONS
Historic Scotland invests £1m in Iona Abbey
Historic Scotland has completed a £1m redevelopment project to enhance the visitor experience at Iona Abbey on the island of Iona. T e investment included the creation of
new interpretation and permanent exhi- bitions, including a museum devoted to the most important collection of early Christian sculptures in Britain and Ireland. T ere is also an audio tour, which takes
visitors on a journey through Iona Abbey from the 6th century to the present day. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=S8T4D
Over the past seven years, around £9m has been spent renovating and restoring the SS Nomadic to how it looked in 1912 when it ferried passen- gers to the Titanic on their doomed voyage. T e ship, which is exactly
a quarter of the size of the Titanic, is also the last remain- ing White Star Line vessel – a shipping company that oper- ated until 1934 before merging with Cunard Line. A campaign was set up in
2005 to save the SS Nomadic. T e ship was bought in 2006 at auction by the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development for the sum of £213,423. Tourism minister, Arlene Foster, said:
T e historic auxiliary ship is exactly a quarter of the size of the Titanic
stay longer and explore more of Belfast.” T e Nomadic is now docked in Belfast’s new
T e Nomadic is another important dimen- sion to the huge Titanic success story and it provides a real opportunity for tourists to
Titanic quarter, near to the Titanic visitor’s centre, which has had more than 650,000 peo- ple come through its doors since it opened nine months ago. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=s3g2a
T e rides would nearly treble the size of the park Work begins on £27m Stonehenge project
Adventure Island planning Southend’s largest rides
Southend’s Adventure Island could be about to get two new rides, much larger than anything else in the park. A 196ſt Starfl yer carousel and a 147ſt tall
Ferris wheel are the two proposed rides for the theme park. If approved, the two rides would almost treble the size of the pleasure park’s existing tall rides with the current highest ride, Skydrop, coming in at 68ſt tall. A planning application has been submitted by Phillip Miller’s Stockvale Group alongside SK Architects of Leigh. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=X7C3X
Winehouse exhibition opens at Jewish Museum
An exhibition on the life of the singer Amy Winehouse has opened close by to the street where she died. T e Jewish Museum in Camden Town,
London, has worked alongside the sing- er’s family to gather her clothes, record and photograph collection for the exhibition. Abigail Morris, chief executive of the
museum said: “Everyone thinks they know who Amy Winehouse is and they’ve seen the pictures, but actually she is somebody’s little sister. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=d8D8v
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A £27m project, part fi nanced by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), has started with the closure of the road running alongside Stonehenge. A section of the A344,
which is directly next to the stones, will now be dug up and grassed over. Once the landscaping work is com- pleted in June 2014, visitors will be able to approach and view the monument from the Avenue, which was the intended approach by Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders according to experts. T e new Stonehenge visitor centre, located 1.5m (2.4km) away from Stonehenge, is set to open in December. T e remaining section of road between Airman’s Corner and Byway 12 will become the route of a new shuttle service
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T e work is part of eff orts to improve access to the ancient monument
to and from the Stones. T e HLF has con- tributed £10m towards the project with the remainder of funding coming from com- mercial income as well as private donations. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=K7K8j
Emirates opens visitor attraction in London
Dubai-based airline Emirates has announced plans to open an aviation-themed visitor attraction in central London, UK. T e indoor Emirates Aviation Experience is due to open in July and will be located close to the existing Emirates Air Line – a cable car service across
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the River T ames. It will provide an insight into the operations and modern achievements of commercial air travel. Spread over 300sq m (3,200sq ſt ), the attraction will feature a number of interactive exhibits and the fi rst public-facing commercial fl ight simulators.
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